The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on February 17, 2022 released its annual Frontiers report in which it has warned that wildfires are predicted to worsen in the coming years and decades.
Features of report
- The report Frontiers 2022: Noise, Blazes and Mismatches identifies three issues: 1. Listening to Cities: From Noisy Environments to Positive Soundscapes, 2. Wildfires Under Climate Change: A Burning Issue and 3. Phenology: Climate Change Is Shifting the Rhythm of Nature.
- The report has warned that wildfires can have destructive consequences for homes and property, human health, and the environment. It further says that the frequency of lightning strikes is projected to increase with a changing climate.
- With reference to the Phenology, which refers to periodic events in biological life cycles, the report says that decades of global warming is causing shifts in the timing of life stages of interacting species, sometimes resulting in ecosystem-disrupting phenological mismatches. For example, some birds now have their nestlings in the nest when food supply is already waning, so late breeding pairs have lower success than early-breeding one.
- Phenological shifts due to anthropogenic climate change have been detected in many life cycle events from reproduction to migration, or from leafing, flowering to fruiting. Phenological mismatches are becoming more common, says report.
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